dissemble

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Recent Examples of dissemble You’d like your government to tell you the truth, and the government dissembled repeatedly after the raid about what the rules of engagement were. Aryeh Neier, The New York Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2025 Pushing back on reporters, at the time Scher often dissembled and appeared to brush aside concerns about what was clearly an increasingly out-of-control situation. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 July 2024 That same week, Altman made headlines at a Senate hearing by asking to be regulated — wowing senators who were more accustomed to tech CEOs dissembling or responding evasively to questions. Brian Fung, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024 That year, with 23,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam, the administration was still dissembling about the American role in the war. Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dissemble
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissemble
Verb
  • The challenge is to stop pretending the current tools give full control and start demanding real visibility.
    Jagadeesh Kunda, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Kelley susses out that Göring is pretending not to understand or speak English, and for a couple of scenes that gives the shrink a leg up.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The fire is assumed to have been sparked by lightning.
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  • The reintroduction team assumed most of the population would settle in the southern third of Indiana, where large reservoirs and river systems create ample habitat.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Each device undergoes reliability tests that simulate outdoor environments—dust exposure, water sprays, vibrations, and rapid temperature cycles—to make sure performance remains stable.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In 2003, the city of Chicago participated in TOPOFF 2, a national terrorism response exercise simulating a radiological attack in Seattle and the release of pneumonic plague in Chicago.
    Lauren Buitta, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Dissemble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissemble. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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